The Newt landslide shows that the people handily beat the Establishment, the media, and Mitt.

The media are already hyperventilating about how Mitt and the Establishment will now have to totally destroy Newt.

Mitt’s classless speech that attacked Newt without naming him and saying that anyone who attacks free enterprise isn’t fit to be the nominee of the party is pretty rich coming from the man who opposed Reagan, conservatism and the party all those times he ran for office. Conservatives believe in free enterprise, not crony capitalism.

For Mitt Romney to attack conservatives for questioning his Bain business practices is chutzpah in the extreme. After all, Mitt’s the man who passed the socialized healthcare plan. He didn’t seem to be too concerned about free enterprise then.

To be fair to Romney, RomneyCare is not socialized (single-payer) insurance. The same insurance companies are in MA as before. They’re not government-owned, they’re just heavily regulated, so in economic terms, it’s closer to corporatism or fascism rather than socialism. That’s better for Romney, isn’t it?

What in God’s name has happened with Brit Hume? He was just on Fox trying to explain a certain exit poll. When South Carolina Republican voters cited electability as the most important quality in a candidate, Brit Hume said what they really mean is someone who can do well in a debate with Obama. Talk about an elitist attitude!

He’s trying to tell us we don’t know what we’re doing. That we don’t have the capacity to see what is so clearly (to FOX) in our own best interest. He’s saying the same thing Newsweek said about Obama but with Romney as the hero. “Why are Romney’s Critics So Dumb?”

I guess that we will have to play the “wait ‘n’ see” game. But are you claiming that Newt is not an “inside the beltway” power broker? Do you truly believe that anything will change with Newt at the helm? Seriously?

Well, he was hired as a consultant for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, wasn’t he? And that was after he was no longer Speaker. It’s more of the same. That’s why I liked Herman Cain before I liked Romney.
So, as I said before, “I guess that we will have to play the “wait ‘n’ see” game.”

Yes, and published articles show Gingrich advised F & F not to do exactly what they did. This is hardly “more of the same”. If that constitutes more of the same that we’re getting from Obama, you are clueless as to what Obama’s been doing.

I was listening to Hugh Hewitt on the radio say something like, “Is Romney going to need Jeb Bush’s endorsement?”

Yeah. Bring in a Bush to defend Mitt, and he will be GUARANTEED to lose.

The cocktail Republicans cannot believe that the American people are choosing who THEY want instead of someone who they have been force fed to accept.
These dummies don’t think we didn’t learn something when McCain was shoved down our throats in 2008.
Pay attention cocktail Republicans: YOU DON’T DECIDE FOR US!

John McCain won the nomination by prevailing in dozens of bruising primaries and caucuses against several tough opponents with the votes of millions of grassroots Republican voters. He did not start the race with any significant advantages in money or endorsements from cocktail sippers ir anyone else.

A lot of people, including lots of Democrats, took advantage of “Same-day” or some such laws to vote for McCain in the primaries in 08. Rush’s “Operation Chaos” couldn’t hold a candle to the shenanigans going on during the Republican primaries then.

Again: lots of Democrats sneaking in to make disaster then. I have no doubt in my mind they’re doing it now, too.

You are clueless.
Most people do not read Legal Insurrection to get their information, they watch the propaganda TV with 3 main networks.
Those networks talked endlessly about how McCain was a “maverick”.

And even though I campaigned for McCain, because I knew how truly dangerous a Chicago thug Marxist would be as our president, I was pissed the we got “stuck” with McCain because the RNC “chose” him for us.

Don’t kid yourself, JEBurke.
If you don’t see the mechanics behind the politics, you are a fool.

Congratulations Newt on a well deserved clear victory in SC. Now on to win Florida, and the rest of the Primary States, and the Republican Party Nomination at the RNC Convention, in the footsteps and path of Ronald Reagan.

Prediction: In about 6-7 days, or a few days before the Florida primary, Newt’s opposition will use the media to bring forth one or more women who will claim to have had a one night stand with him in the last ten years. no proof, no evidence, just claims.

Newt went to Washington a relatively poor college professor. Decades later he is a multimilliionaire. He has sucked off the federal teat since the day he got there. I do not understand why there are people on this thread who think he is a conservative hero just because he blasted the press in a debate.

Please. People glom onto Gingrich because he projects confidence and they want a fighter to take on Obama. Then they justify and explain away his inconsistencies to themselves and by saying he’s got to be better than Romney.

There are 3 big government establishment Republicans in the race and one real conservative.

The fact that he wrote books, had speaking engagements, and started a consulting company couldn’t possibly have added to his coffers, correct? If I had life experience in a certain industry, I would be nuts not to use it–what ever the industry. Most intelligent people would do the same thing–capitalize on their contacts.

I guess S. E. might be right if you buy Huckabee’s surmise that SC evangelicals might not have voted for Romney because he’s a Mormon. I find it a dumb and condescending explanation of Gingrich’s victory in SC.

That would mean evangelicals all voted for Ron Paul since he’s the only Protestant in the race (and a Baptist at that). It also would mean they will vote for Protestant Obama over Mormon Romney if Romney wins the nomination. Sort of a lose-lose premise if you’re hoping the argument will bring more voters to Romney as the most electable candidate.

S. E. Cupp is drinking Ann Coulter’s hubris kool-aid. The only candidate who can win is the one they back.

Glenn Beck called Geert Wilders a “fascist” on Fox despite the fact that back on HLN Glenn had been very cordial to him and acknowledged how Geert fights for freedom at great personal risk. Screw Becky, he can go cry by himself now.
Krauthammer also called Geert Wilders a ‘fascist’ and I have not paid any mind to a word CK has had to say since. These people create their own irrelevancy.

Dadgum……I never thought about that! As a lifelong resident of SC I can assuredly say that YES! the Baptist Church has a strong influence over SC, always has and always will. Perhaps we hicks out in the sticks do nix the establishment picks because we are too stupid to realize a gift!